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Enjoying this a lot ! Possibly too much ;)

"Research paper", ha. I came across this a few years ago, I call it the "Frankenpaper". See this gist for why I call it that: https://gist.github.com/Morendil/85336bf97211f9f31102c…

This needs some signal-boosting! I would trust someone with a sharp eye like that to review my code much more than I would trust the author of the original article. The PDF that re…

Not in-depth across the whole set; I picked apart one or two before coming to the conclusion that there was something inherently flawed in the whole approach of modeling study of t…

I'm a big fan of TDD, but I quit reading this article the second my eyes came across "IBM System Sciences Institute" and the chart that accompanies it. This is by now one of the mo…

It's normal to experience emotions related to what happens at work. It's called "being human". And dealing with emotions - putting words on them, accepting them and moving on - is …

It's quite common, and known as "plagiarism". It will usually get people discredited quite thoroughly.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque

For more than you ever wanted to know on the "studies" about 10x programmers, see http://leanpub.com/leprechauns

I'm all too aware of these many citations. A few years ago, I went to the trouble of chasing down most of the papers and books, and evaluating how well each of them supported the c…

I'd put the cost of defects claim in the category "not even wrong". If someone made quantified claims about "the number of minutes of life lost to smoking one cigarette" I would re…

I'm disappointed to see a book aimed at "professional" developers continue to spread outdated and debunked information, such as the NIST "study" adduced as evidence for the imperat…

"Though it promises robot carers for an ageing population, it also forecasts huge numbers of jobs being wiped out: up to 35% of all workers in the UK and 47% of those in the US" ..…

A fantastic book on the history of the search for gravitational waves: "Gravity's Shadow" by Harry Collins.

Point him to "Lessons Learned in Software Testing" by Bach, Kaner and Pettichord: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0471081124 Also, "manual testing" is a slightly unfortunate monicker for …

As far as I can tell France universally uses "Flow A" (get your card back first, then your cash). When I started using ATMs, in the late 80s, I remember that "Flow A" and "Flow B" …

Or similarly https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=shareware&year...

I own one of those. They're rad.

This. Also, the (rarely surfaced) assumption that whoever is doing the hiring can tell a talented programmer from an average one. This is rarely the case.

> The idea of this is not "try to break the robot" Think of it this way. If you want to learn what constitutes strong chess play, will you learn best from playing a) yourself or b)…

Next time it's up, try asking a few of these: http://www.cs.nyu.edu/davise/papers/WS.html

That headline should read: "33% of human judges flunk the Turing Test".

Let's please upvote this to ensure it remains the top comment on this story. Head and shoulders above your usual science reporting.

After a couple years of fantasizing about owning one, I finally took action month before last. I built a Prusa i3 from parts, single-sourced everything as a kit from RepRapWorld.co…